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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun 100th Anniversary
When Congregation Bnai Jr- ! between Buffalo and New York changed to a purely Religious gested by symbols found on the
remains of buildings in Pales-
shurun in New York City, the from twenty days to six. A School.
oldest Conservative
country's
tine and Egypt.
Distinguished Rabbis
New York has swelled
from six strange contrivance called the
Following the Centenary of
congregation, cdebrates its 120th
The office of rabbi did not
anniversary on Dec. 0, it will locomotive, invented in England, exist in the Congregation until the Congregation in 1925, Dr.
have spanned an epoch during had not yet reached the 50 year 1849 when the Rev. Dr. Morris Goldstein wrote "A Century of
old republic on the west side of
which the Jewish population of the Atlantic.
J. Raphall of Sweden, scholar Judaism in New York," a vol-
and orator, was called to be- ume which he spent five years
John Quincy Adams was pre- come rabbi and preacher. He was in preparing, and which is now
thousand to two million, and
man has progressed from the sident, Washington Irving the the first of the distinguished an important reference work in
era of the horse-drawn omnibus most popular author, and frete spiritual leaders who have add- American Jewish history.
to the atomic age.
public school education was just ed lustre to the history of the
Philanthropic Record Unusual
Bnai Jeshurun is One of the around th e corner. There were Congregation. His s u c c es sors
Congregation final Jeshurun
have been Dr. Henry Vidaver
nation's notable Congregations. 20 in the American flag.
has an unusual record in Jewish
of Poland, 1868 to 1874; Rev. social service, rescue work and
It has served Judaism not only
Th , Jewish life of the nation Henry S. Jacobs of Kingston,
as a house of worship where
revolved around SIX Congrega- British West Indies, 1876 to American philanthropy. During
men may refresh their spirits tions, on e
of which was in New 1893; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, 1893 the last 25 years, its membership
and strengthen their faith, but
York City. This was the syna- to 1900; Rabbi Joseph Mayer has contributed ten million dol-
as a center of community life,
gogue of She arith Israel on Mil . Asher of Manchester, England lars for American philanthro-
a fount of Jewish learning, a
Street, founded in the 17th cen- 1901 to 1906; Rabbi Judah L. pies, both Jewish and non-Jew-
storehouse of Jewish culture and
tury, and known as the Spanish Magnes, 1911 to 1912; Rabbi ish, more than two million dol-
a bulwark of democracy.
and Portuguese Synagogue. Mor- Joel Blau, 1913 to 1917, and lars for the building of Pales-
Through its rabbi, Dr. Israel
decai M. Noah, a Jew and one Dr. Goldstein who was called to tine and three millions for Eu-
Goldstein. one of the leaders
of the leading citizens of the the pulpit in July, 1918, direct- ropean relief. It has been the
of American Jewry and ardent
struggling young nation, became ly after graduation from tht , largest donor to the Jewish The-
builder of the Jewish homeland
ological Seminary and to Pal-
a friend and benefactor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
of Palestine, the influence of
estine funds. When Dr. Gold-
new enterprise. Its first syna-
The
present
structure
at
88th
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun has
gogue was a Colonial building Street and West End Avenue stein became President of the
spread beyond the great city
Zionist Organization of America,
at 119 Elm Street. 600 persons
with whose history it is linked crowded into the small syna- on the West Side of Manhattan the entire Congregation enrolled
completed in 1918, is unique
into the nation and the world.
gogue for the dedication in among religious buildings. Its
Dr. Goldstein who is past pres-
1827.
Byzantine architecture embodies
ident of the Synagogue Council
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In the first 25 years of Bnai the ancient spirit of Semitic art,
of America and the Jewish Na-
tional Fund and has just retired Jeshurun's existence, the Jewish and the designs and symbols
as president of the Zionist Or- scene in America underwent used in the decoration were sug-
many changes, The complexion
America,
of
ganization
hhs rapidly
of Jewish
worked tirelessly during the past
as a communities
great wave of altered
immi-
decade for the rescue of Euro-
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pean Jews and unrestricted Jew- gration from Central Europe de-
scended
upon our
In
ish immigration into Palestine. 1839,
preaching
was shores.
introduced
The far-reaching contributions into the synagogue, an innova-
in the Zionist Organization of
America.
Many prominent families have
been affiliated with the Congre-
gation, including those of the
late Judge Nathan I. Bijur and
Justice Irving Lehman, Abram
I. Elkus and Sol M. Stroock.
()then; have been Louis Mar-
shall, Felix Warburg and Henry
A. Dix. Charles W. Endel, pres-
ident of the Congregation, w:;s
a student in its Religious School.
Four generations of one famil!
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a
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